Garment-stay clasp.



A. C. HOLLY. GARMENT STAY CLASP. APPLlCATION FILED ocT.s. 1914.

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH co., WASHINGTON. n. c.

To allwhom it may concern Am r- HOLLY, esc ews KANSAS- GARMENT-STAY. criesri Specification of LettersPatent. Batenl edi Dec gl, 1915;

Application filed October 3, 1914. S'eIiaI No. 8645940;

'Be it known-that LALIOE C. HOLLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fredonia, in the county of Wilson and State ofKa-nsas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Stay Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates toseparable clasps, and more particularly to clasps of that character adapted to be positioned upon garment stays as a removable closure maintaining means therefor.

As a principal object, this invention contemplates the provision of clasps which shall be integrally formed and adapted to be bent into a. clamping position about a garment stay or other element so as to mate in pairs, the clasps of each pair being diflerently constructed from each other in accordance with their different functions.

An object of equal importance is to provide garment stay clasps of the type described which may be constructed with such regard to proportion and arrangement as to permit of their being cheaply manufactured as well as durable and efficient in operation.

The above and additional objects which will become apparent as this explanatory description proceeds, are accomplished by such means as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification and then more particularly pointed out in the claims which are appended hereto and form a part of this application.

lVith reference to the drawings, wherein there is illustrated the preferred embodiment of this invention as it is reduced to practice and throughout the several views of which like characters of reference designate similar parts; Figure 1 is an elevation of the clasp members comprehended by this invention as positioned along the closure edges of a garment, Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail of the stud receiving clasp as carried upon a section of spring boning, Fig. 8 is a plan of the blank from which the clasp portion illustrated in Fig. 4k may be made, and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the clasp member illustrated in Fig. 2.

With reference to the drawings, there will be seen illustrated a clasp for garment stays, the blank of the major portion of which clasp is illustrated in Fig. 3. The clasp portion. 15 adapted to mate with a suitable stud carrying portionv is similarly formed with a rectangular body having the enlarged extremity 16 and the reduced tongue 17 which latteris designed tobe received in a keyhole slot. 18: formed in. the enlarged head when this clasp portion is bent to receive and; embrace the boning. lVhen so bent to inclose the stay, this clasp portion is rectangular in cross section having one of its sides continued to form the outwardly extendinghead. 16, the freeendof the rectangle being held in. place by the tongue lap l'la 'When' theboningof a garment stay is to be equipped with the clasp disclosed by this invention, the opposite boning elements 1 9 and 20 are equipped respectively with a plurality of the stud carrying and the stud receiving clasp portions arranged to form oppositely disposed pairs as illustrated in Fig. 1. The stud receiving portions are each bent upon the dotted lines 22 successively at right angles until the tongue 17 is lapped through the keyhole slot 18 which receives the stud 14 in the usual and obvious manner when the boning elements 19 and 20 are approached as the edges of the closure. It will thus be seen that a clasp has been provided, the manufacture of which demands but a single process of stamping, accordingly cheapening the cost to a large degree. Should means he desired to prevent longitudinal slipping of the clasp portions upon the boning element a small rivet 23 may be used as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, which may also performthe additional function of serving to secure the tongues 17, as is clearly illustrated in these figures.

Since the clasp of this invention is particularly adapted for use in connection with stays of the woven wire character illustrated particularly in Figs. 2 and 4, in which the strands of wire are provided with corresponding spring bights which occupy more lateral space than the usual boning, it is evident that the rectangle formed by each inclosing clasp portion may be bent tightly upon respective stays, which will be resilient enough to give slightly under a close fit and will accordingly tend to prevent displacement of the clasp longitudinally of the stay. The rivet 23, however, can render certain this fact by engaging with the adjacent spring bight and limit casual movement of the clasp without preventing its being unbent and refasten'ed upon some other portion of the clasp. 7

While in the foregoing however, there has thus been illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification such combination and arrangement of elements as constitute the preferred embodiment 'of this invention, it is desired; to emphasize the fact that such minor changes in the matters of proportion and degree may be made in later adaptations of this device-as shall not alter the spirit of theinvention as define in the appended claims. What is claimed is:

1. In combination with garment stays o woven spring-bight wire, a clasp including separable portions struck out from a single sheet of metal, an enlarged head formed on one extremity of one of said portions, a reduced tongue formed at the opposite. ex-

tremity of said portion, a key-hole slot being formed insaid head to receive said tongue when said portion is clamped about said wlre, and means securlng sa1d tongue in 1ts Copies of this patent may be obtained for bent position and contacting with the-strands of one of said stays to' limit movement of said clasp portion thereupon.

2. In combination with garment stays of wovenspring-bight wire, a clasp including separable portions both struck out from a single sheet of metal and clampingly positioned upon respective closure stays by sucsaid stays to limit movement of said clasp portion thereupon. v

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALICE C. HOLLY. \Vitnesses:

Mrs. W. S. CADY, Mrs. CARL KELLEY.

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.Washington, D. C. 

